SINGLE-BREASTED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does single-breasted mean? 

• SINGLE-BREASTED (adjective)
  The adjective SINGLE-BREASTED has 1 sense:

1. (of clothing) closing with a narrow overlap and fastened with a single row of buttons

  Familiarity information: SINGLE-BREASTED used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SINGLE-BREASTED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

(of clothing) closing with a narrow overlap and fastened with a single row of buttons

Context example:

a single-breasted jacket

Antonym:

double-breasted ((of clothing) fastened by lapping one edge of the front well over the other usually with a double row of buttons)

 Context examples 

He was dressed in a single-breasted black coat buttoned up, a pair of leather pantaloons stretched tightly across his broad thighs, polished Hessian boots, and a huge white neckcloth.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)